Early world maps
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The earliest known world maps date to classical antiquity, the oldest examples of the 6th to 5th centuries BCE still based on the flat Earth paradigm. World maps assuming a spherical Earth first appea
A 1628 reconstruction of Posidonius' ideas about the positions of continents (many details could not have been known by Posidonius)
An 1898 reconstruction of Pomponius Mela's view of the world
Modern re-drawing of the Tabula Peutingeriana, from Iberia in the west, to India in the east.
Original Tabula Rogeriana (1154) with south up.
Terra Australis
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Terra Australis was a hypothetical continent first posited in antiquity and which appeared on maps between the 15th and 18th centuries. Its existence was not based on any survey or direct observation,
Western hemisphere of the Johannes Schöner globe from 1520
Guillaume Le Testu's 1556 Cosmographie Universel, 4me projection, where the northward extending promontory of the Terre australle is called Grande Jaue
Tabula geographica Regni Chile from 1646 depicts Terra Australis Incognita to the east of Tierra del Fuego.